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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"State violence"”.
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THE BOLSONARO EFFECT: STATE VIOLENCE ON INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN BRAZIL
… I propose the Bolsonaro effect as an increase in state violence against Indigenous people as the outcome of the following: the furthering of economic ventures aimed at extracting natural resources from the Amazon (home of most Indigenous communities in Brazil); invasions on Indigenous territories …
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Youth Politics between Informality and State Violence in Nairobi, Kenya.
… economy and a very localized regime of state violence carried out by police. Situating youth politics in Kenya’s post-independence political history, it reveals that today’s regime of police violence against youth is in fact deeply constitutive of the Kenyan political fabric; moreover, …
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Youth Activists in Kashmir: State Violence, Tehreek, and the Formation of Political Subjectivity
… Kashmir, caught in chronic conditions of state violence and traversed by transnational discourses of identity, experience precarity while desperately seeking to constitute themselves as political subjects through their involvement in <em>Tehreek,</em> or the movement for independence. …
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The political effectiveness of non-state violence : paradox, polarity, and the pursuit of power
When is non-state violence politically effective? Existing scholarship suggests that insurgency and terrorism are generally effective or ineffective based on the analysis of unitary non-state coercers operating solely at the strategic level. Although this approach provides useful insight, a failure …
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Unveiling the Digital Dynamics: How Online Reactions to Racialized State Violence Amplifies White Nationalist Affect
… YouTube through public reactions to racialised state violence. Specifically, this research focuses on the cases of George Floyd and migrant children in detention centres in the United States. The primary argument of this work is that white nationalism is a manifestation of colonialism in the …
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The Impact of State Violence on Women During the 22 Years of Dictatorship in The Gambia
… in The Gambia by exploring the impact of state sanctioned violence on women during former President Yahya Jammeh’s twenty-two years of tyranny in the country. During the two-decade long brutal reign under Jammeh, Gambians from all walks of lives faced gross human rights violations and …
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The reconfiguration of the state in an era of neoliberal globalism: State violence and indigenous responses in the Costa Chica-Montaña of Guerrero, Mexico.
… the governing elites to reconfigure the Mexican State. However, the consolidation of a neoliberal State continues to be incomplete and it has been problematic to fully integrated the Mexican economy in the global market due to the increasing organized crime, the dismantling of previous …
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'The Murderer State Will be Held to Account’ The Myth of the State and Its Violence
The legal aftermath of police violence often fails to respond to public demands of accountability. What we often witness is a two-pronged response and conclusion in the legal process; police violence is either understood as an exceptional event–i.e., the wrongdoings of a few bad cops–or such …
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Reframing theories of evil: ethics, violence and the state
… under the category of evil. In most cases of state violence, the harmful act does not come to be viewed by the public as evil.</p> <p>Hence, in this study, I question the relation between the occurrence of a harmful act and the failure to grasp that harmful occurrence with the concept of evil …
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What is She Hiding? Gender, Anti-blackness and the Strip-Searching of Black Women and Girls in Canada
… encounter is a site of gendered and sexualized state violence that ultimately reveals the relation between the Canadian nation-state and Black women and girls. This study aims to explore but also intervene in Canada’s project of disavowing gendered anti-Black violence and asserts that this …
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New Directions in State Crime: A Queer Criminology Perspective
<p>While recent decades have seen an expansion of state crime literature, the scholarship has been slow to integrate new criminological perspectives. The field is aware of state-perpetrated harms committed against queer and gender non-conforming individuals, yet there are limited works that …
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They didn't win the war : aesthetics and infrastructure in post-counterinsurgency Guatemala.
… the lack of empathy towards the suffering of State-violence is normalized. In the aftermath of Rios Montt’s genocide trial, this lack of empathy is basically triggered by the emergence of a field of expressivity in which the history of State-violence becomes tangible and transmutes in the …
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Sustaining Threat Narratives about Muslims and Arabs in Germany in The Post 9/11 Era: An Analysis of Showtime?s Homeland
… challenges, and moral ambivalence regarding the state's use of violence and surveillance. Reception analysis requires insight into the televisual text, the sociocultural characteristics of the viewer, and the socio-political context of the time. Consequently, my research balances theoretical …
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Refusing Rehabilitation: Outlaw Epistemologies and the Carceral-Therapeutic State in NYC
… Epistemologies and the Carceral-Therapeutic State </em>explores how gender, race, and class have been transformed at the intersection of criminal legal system reform and the overdose crisis. I take up how multiracial groups of criminalized women—thrown together by the state, not by …
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States of savagery : cannibalism and the political in postwar fiction
States of Savagery argues that, more than just the consumption of individual bodies, cannibalism figures the political struggle to define the boundaries between self and other, as well as the dangers inherent in this struggle--the possible eradication of the personal and social body. Cannibalism …
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Destruction as Rule: Containment, Censuring and Confusion in Pakistani Balochistan
… dissertation explores the contour and content of state-ordered destruction in the construction of state, territory, and subjects. To do so, it carries out a historical and ethnographic study of state violence, from the colonial era until today, in Pakistan’s southern province of Balochistan. …
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Art of Play in Zones of Conflict - The Case of Israel Palestine
… conflict, with its deployment of expansive state violence and divisive political rhetoric, is the stifling of critical engagement. This practice- based research project investigates play as a tactic used by artists from within the region to counter this impact by re-igniting participants’ …
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Grammars of Care: On Care Full Writing as Black Feminist Pedagogy and Praxis
… to make evident the ways in which anti-black state violence is narrativized as care and re-inscribed through formal education and professional practice. The method I activate in this project—what I call care-full writing—is informed and guided by the scholarship and creative practice of Black …
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